Potty Training Take 2 - January 2012

This is a way outdated post - should have gone up in January. Life has been full of craziness and not enough minutes in the day so blogging has not gotten done for quite some time. I have a lot to catch up on.


We decided to tackle potty training again. Aubrey was going to be moving to her new classroom on January 9 and her best friend Natalie had just started the process so we thought we'd give it another go. Well - this time she was ready! We started it with the New Year's Holiday because Brian had a few days off and we figured with both adults home one of us could be ready to drop everything and run to the bathroom whenever nature called. Miss Aubrey ran with it and did a FANTASTIC job! 

We learned that she is crazy for gummy bears. Each time she peed she scored a gummy bear. She learned pretty quickly that if she peed and then held the rest for a later trip she'd get another gummy. She played the system but it worked! It took a few days to get the whole concept of pooping but she mastered that too and now is only in diapers at night! Go Aubrey!

We've Gone Green

This is a very outdated post but an important one non the less. When I was attending the nursing support group with Aubrey a few of the moms had decided to cloth diaper. They went on and on about it and were super excited to show off the cloth. I never really got on that train but thinking about having 2 in diapers got me thinking that maybe we needed to explore cloth.

I obsessed and did a ton of research. Financially cloth seemed the way to go. It would be less expensive and it's better for the environment. Many days were spent on Craigslist and I finally found someone who was selling brand new cloth diapers. We met up with the woman around New Year's and bought two brands of diapers in all sorts of colors.

They needed to be washed before wearing with special detergent. We looked and looked for detergent and finally found some at Whole Foods. It was finally time to get these things washed and worn. In the meantime of all of this hunting for detergent Miss Aubrey decided to potty train (more in a future blog). That left little Miss Ciara to try the cloth herself. I had a picture but we are having issues with our memory card and we lost pictures on one of them. Instead you get a cute picture of the girls and a picture of what some of the diapers look like.

2 Week Stats

Ciara had her 2 week appointment with Dr. Jones. Dr. Jones was impressed with the weight gain! Woo-hoo! Ciara weighed in at 6 pounds 13 ounces at birth. When she was weighed before leaving the hospital she was at 6 pounds 7 ounces. When she went in for her newborn appointment on December 9 she weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces. At her 2 week appointment she jumped to an even 8 pounds! That meant she had been busy eating - she had been an eating machine. She was gaining almost 1.5 ounces a day rather than the 1/2 to 1 ounce that is typical. That bumped her from the 10%-25% at birth to the 50%-75%! Hooray!

Her belly button stump had fallen off on December 20 at exactly 2 weeks. It had been a bit oozy and yucky so Dr. Jones took one look at it and decided it needed to be cauterized. She took a little bit of silver nitrate and put it in the belly button to seal it up. It was painless and Ciara sat still for it which meant it didn't even make a mess! Once the belly button was sealed up everything looked good and we got the clearance to come back again for her 1 month appointment.